2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

FMA 100 - Animation Principles


Description: Introduction to fundamental principles of animation. Film viewing, basic theory and mechanics of animation, and how those skills apply to specific careers. Emphasis on the fundamentals of character design, storyboarding, and layout through the creation of a short animation project.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Animations
  2. Mechanics of applications
  3. Storyboarding
  4. Character design

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Watch and analyze animation media from various categories and applications. (1,2)
  2. Create an animation in each category: 2D, 3D and stop motion. (1-4)